Dive into our curated collection of Excel wisdom. Whether you're a beginner or aiming to become a power user, these insights will help you work smarter and faster.
Master Excel: Essential Tips & Techniques
Browse through key insights to enhance your spreadsheet skills.
XLOOKUP simplifies finding data. It's flexible, easy, and replaces VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP.
SUMIF for single criterion sums, SUMIFS for multiple. Great for targeted financial summaries.
Display custom messages or values if a formula errs (e.g., #DIV/0!), keeping sheets clean.
TEXTJOIN concatenates with delimiter, ignoring empties. CONCAT is simpler for direct joining.
Leverage UNIQUE for distinct values and SORT to order them automatically. Requires newer Excel versions.
INDEX & MATCH offer a robust and flexible alternative to VLOOKUP for complex data retrieval.
Work with current dates/times. Calculate differences between dates for durations or age.
Extract parts of text strings, or find their length. Essential for cleaning and parsing data.
Summarize, analyze, and explore large datasets with a few clicks using PivotTables.
Slicers provide buttons to filter data in Tables, PivotTables, and Charts dynamically.
Excel's Flash Fill automatically completes data when it senses a pattern, saving manual effort.
Double-click Format Painter to copy formatting (font, color, borders) to multiple places.
Understand when to use bar, line, pie, or scatter charts to best convey your data story.
Sparklines are tiny charts within a cell, providing quick visual data trends.
Quickly add or remove filters from a data range. A massive time-saver.
F4 repeats your last action or cycles cell reference types ($A$1, A$1) in formulas.
Highlight cells based on values using rules like "greater than" or color scales.
Format data as an Excel Table (Ctrl+T) for structured references, easy formatting, and auto-expansion.